FOREST VIEW PRIMARY SCHOOL

CONCORDE

2010 marks the centenary of aircraft production in the Bristol area.

Bristol Cultural Development Partnership is coordinating the BAC 100 programme of events to celebrate this anniversary.

Discussions took place during August 2007 between representatives of the B.C.D.P. and a Teaching Assistant at Forest View School with a view to building a model of Condorde. It was also intended that an account of the activity should be made available to the B.C.D.P. for inclusion in their education website, to be launched in February 2010.

Work began on the model in September 2007 and all of the Year Six pupils were involved in the project.

The completed model was displayed in the Cinderford Co-op, the “Forester” office in Cinderford High Street and at “The Dean Heritage Centre” Soudley.

Now in January 2010 some of those original Year Six pupils who now attend Heywood Community School have worked together using their ICT skills to produce this description of how they made

the model back in 2007.

CONCORDE FACTS

Concorde was a joint venture between B.A.C. and Aérospatiale.

Concorde’s first flight at Filton, Bristol was on the 9th April 1969.

Concorde entered commercial service on the 21st January 1976 with British

Airways and Air France.

Concorde was powered by four Bristol/Rolls Royce Olympus 593 Turbojet

engines.

Concorde had a cruising speed of Mach 2.04 (around 1350 mph).

Concorde could carry 100 passengers from London to New York in 3 hours 20

minutes. A Boeing 747 took more than 7 hours to complete the same journey.

Concorde’s last flight was to Filton on the 26th November 2003.

MAKING THE MODEL

Materials

1 x cardboard tube - 95mm outside diameter - 75mm internal diameter - 105cm length6mm thick MDF sheetPVA wood gluePapiér MâchéArtexWhite MDF primerCountersunk wood screwsPanel pins

CONSTRUCTION

We cut out the templates and laid them on the sheet of MDF and drew carefully around them. The Teaching Assistant cut out the shapes with a jigsaw and cut a 45o

chamfer on the edges of W2, W3, W4 and W5.

Wings

We laid the wing flat and drew on it a centre line A – B.Then we measured 15mm either side of the centre line and drew in lines C – D andE – F.

We drilled 6 x 1mm holes in W2 and W3 and inserted the panel pins .We applied PVA wood glue to the underside lined up the edges with lines C – D and E – F and tapped in the panel pins.

Next we took sections W4 and W5 and repeated the above procedure and pinned and glued them to W2 and W3.

Nose Section

We glued the circular disc at a right angle to the nose section.

Then we glued on the 6 other strakes to form the shape of the nose and cabin.

Tail Section

We formed the tail section in the same way as the nose section.

Fuselage/wing section

Next we glued the fuselage to the wing.

To make the join more secure, we turned the wing and fuselage upside down and we drilled and countersunk holes from underneath. We then secured the wings with countersunk wood screws.

The completed nose and tail sections were then fitted into the fuselage (cardboard tube) and glued together.

Engines

The parts of the engines were glued together and then the engine units were glued to the underside of the wing.

FINISHING THE MODELThe nose and tail sections were built up with layers of papiér mâché to form smooth contours.

ArtexWe painted the whole model with several coats of Textured Artex.

PaintThe model was finished with three coats of white MDF primer.

SUMMARY

What did we gain from this project?

An understanding of the importance of the aircraft industry in our region.

Skills in measuring, drawing and construction.

Working together as a team on a long term project.

Applying our ICT skills in word processing, CAD-PAC and research.